"Flying at Light Speed Is Pretty Much Impossible—Unless..." Topic

… You're Han Solo.

"I'm going to talk about Star Wars: The Force Awakens. If you haven't seen it by now, I have a feeling that you either don't really care about the movie or you don't care about spoilers. But don't worry, I'm not going to give away anything major. Still—you have been warned.

In one scene in the movie, Han Solo and Finn (oh, and Chewbacca too) are trying to get on the surface of the Star Killer to disable the shields. Here is the important dialogue as they approach the planet.

Finn: How are we getting in?…"
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The author fails to consider the possibility of a pre-designed curving flight plan, thus extending the possible reaction window. Imagine that the Falcon enters on a parabolic path designed to curve back around the planet's surface while under the planetary shield, rather than the straight-line pass through the article's author assumes. (Heck, if you can plot a hyperspace jump so well that you can actually skim a planet's surface, you can certainly add in a curve!) The resulting curve could easily dramatically increase the available reaction time to cover even Chewie's reactions. (And who knows, maybe Wookies have a greater reaction speed than humans do. In fact, one could argue that's why their language sounds like nothing but howling to human ears. It's actually a series of complex tonal interactions which a Wookie's hearing and neural reactions can break apart into distinct variations. Chewie's growl of "Whurhurarararggh" could, in Wookie, be a response of "Yes, I know that this is the time to react, Captain Solo. In fact, I have already done the necessary calculations, and the maneuver is now fully completed, laid in, processed and recorded in the log. You needn't shout 'Now,' and certainly not so loudly.")

HAH! Great response, Parzival.

Trying to rationalize ANYTHING dealing with Star Wars physics is an insta-fail.

This whole discussion forgets that, in Star Wars, light speed uses hyperspace, which is a higher level dimension. Because of the extradimensional aspect of FTL travel, I am sure they had quite a bit more time to react than in the article.

And Chewbacca has always been portrayed as smarter and handier than Han Solo; he is just hard to understand.

Seems Harrison has had a few problems with his landings.

Parzival… Chapeaux pour vous!….(smile)

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